Review: Light Years from Home by Mike Chen

Mike Chen’s Light Years from Home in audiobook format, published by Harlequin Audio and narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, is an entertaining listen. Multiple audiobook narrator awards winner Zeller gives a solid performance of several character voices. She deftly varies her pitch and tones between Kass, the older sister, and Evie, the youngest of the three siblings, along with Kass’s twin brother Jakob, the protagonist.
Although the inter-sibling squabbling is tiresome at first, it plays an important role in the characterizations. Author Mike Chen avoids confusing the listener as he transitions the plot from past to present, building past and present relationships between the siblings and their parents against the backstory of an intergalactic war. With the involvement of the Red Network and the FBI, the story moves forward at a steady and urgent pace.
Even with major doubts between clashing personalities, everything comes to an ultimate and satisfying conclusion.

My thanks to Harlequin Audio and NetGalley for a review copy of this novel.